Health

Credit: York University News Toronto, ON (April 18, 2018) - A new study from McMaster and York universities has found...

Jeffrey H. Samet, M.D., F.A.C.P., honored with national award from American College of Physicians

Philadelphia, 2017 -- Jeffrey H. Samet, MD, MA, MPH, FACP, has been awarded the American College of Physicians (ACP) Richard...

Standard Bariatrics closes Series A round of financing

Credit: Bruce Crippen for Standard Bariatrics (Cincinnati, OH-- April 18, 2018) Standard Bariatrics, Inc., an innovator of bariatric surgical devices,...

Casey Strale Foundation tops $150,000 in gifts to TGen

Credit: Photo courtesy of TGen NEWPORT BEACH, Calif. -- April 17, 2018 -- The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an...

Overcoming bias about music takes work

Expectations and biases play a large role in our experiences. This has been demonstrated in studies involving art, wine and...

Development of a quantitative pharmacodynamic assay for apoptosis in fixed tumor tissue

Credit: Oncotarget Existing microscopy-based methods of detecting apoptosis, such as TUNEL (terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase dUTP nick-end labeling), have limited quantitative...

Having fully stocked cart to treat malignant hyperthermia during labor not cost-beneficial

CHICAGO - Maintaining a stocked cart, with a full supply of the life-saving drug dantrolene, to treat malignant hyperthermia, a...

Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for African pharmaceutical industry

Credit: Insilico Medicine Wednesday, April 118th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...

Association for Chemoreception Sciences (AChemS) 40th Annual Meeting

Bonita Springs, FL-- Smell and taste are vital senses that bring pleasure to daily life, inform us about our environment,...

Preventing fractures and falls: Shedding light on the USPSTF’s new recommendations

The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) has released new recommendation statements on preventing fractures and falls in older adults,...

Model can predict success of treatments that manipulate the gut microbiota

A new mathematical model can predict the effectiveness of microbiome therapies that manipulate the immune system through live bacteria and...

Insilico to present the advances in Artificial Intelligence for Healthcare in Kenya

Credit: Insilico Medicine Tuesday, April 17th, 2018, Baltimore, MD - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company specializing in the application of...

Kids hit hard by junk food advertising: New research

Junk food ads are shown more frequently on TV at times when many children are watching, new Heart Foundation-funded research...

Though most prolapse surgeries regress over time, symptoms remain improved

DURHAM, N.C. - An estimated one in three women in the U.S. has a pelvic floor disorder, a condition that...

FDA approves new standard of care for kidney cancer

Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - April. 17, 2018 - The standard of care for kidney cancer patients continues to improve....

APS 2018 Distinguished Lectureship Award winners to present talks at Experimental Biology

Bethesda, Md. (April 17, 2018)--The American Physiological Society (APS) has announced the 2018 recipients of its distinguished lecturer awards. APS...

Bacterial ‘gene swapping’ sparks disease outbreaks

A new study by scientists at the University of Liverpool documents, for the first time, how the ability of bacteria...

USPSTF recommendation statement on vitamin D, calcium supplementation to prevent fractures

Bottom Line: The U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) concludes current scientific evidence is insufficient regarding the use of vitamin...

Simple one-page tool improves patient satisfaction with doctor visit